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Wine Business Monthly · February 2023

What's in your Wine? Costing Tips for Better Accounting

By Chris McDonald. Practical guidance on winery cost accounting: what belongs in COGS, where costs hide, and how better costing changes pricing decisions.

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Published in Wine Business Monthly.

Book & Substack column

The Post-Pandemic Wine Market by Jim Silver

Jim Silver, a 30-year wine industry operator and NVC management consultant, is the author of The Post-Pandemic Wine Market and writes a regular Substack column offering practical insight into the evolving economics and structure of the wine business.